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by salawat 2655 days ago
The solution isn't so much "more pilot trainimg".

It's that pilot training wasn't done that absolutely needed to have been.

A three page if even that description of the system, and it's inputs/outputs/controls should have been sufficient for a pilot to be able to build up a mental model to deal with a faulty AoA sensor, and modify their piloting technique to stay within a more conservative maneuvering envelope while operating the plane.

Whether that would have been sufficient to prevent both disasters I don't know, but it sure seems like it would be a small trade off that even in the absence of any other system hardening could have made the difference between no survivors, and an emergency landing.